Ever the professional, The Wanted's Max George won't be short of a smile when he tries to impress the judges on Strictly Come Dancing.
But behind his fancy footwork lies agonising grief as his bandmate and 'brother', Tom Parker' faces a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
For five years the lads were joined at the hip, travelling the world and scoring hit after hit with the boyband created to rival One Direction.
And news of Tom's desperate situation has understandably knocked Max, 32, sideways. It was Tom's pregnant wife Kelsey who called Max to share the tragic diagnosis to spare her husband from having to relive it over and over again.
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